February 2012

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Full scale UG strike from Monday

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Full scale UG strike from Monday

University of Guyana workers along with lecturers will proceed on a three day strike from Monday as staff and students continue to press for their demands to be met. The University of Guyana...

Canadian firm expects 4.6M ounces of gold from Aurora claim

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Canadian firm expects 4.6M ounces of gold from Aurora claim

-plans to spend US$525M initially -will mine average of 256,000 ounces annually A feasibility study into the Aurora Gold Project, said to be Guyana’s next large scale goldmine, has...

Floods cause biggest losses for cash crops, rice and poultry

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Floods cause biggest losses for cash crops, rice and poultry

After the recent floods, caused by heavy rainfall, the government has sought to record losses suffered by farmers across the coast. Thus far, a technical team from the Ministry of Agriculture...

Enhanced Guyana/Suriname relations fuelled by common goals – Luncheon

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Enhanced Guyana/Suriname relations fuelled by common goals – Luncheon

The elevation of the joint commission engagements between Guyana and Suriname to the presidential level has indeed produced the anticipated dividends. Head of the Presidential...

Mother pickets Home Affairs,claims police victimizing son

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mother pickets Home Affairs,claims police victimizing son

A mother yesterday staged a picketing exercise outside the Home Affairs Ministry to highlight the arrest of her son, Tony Anthony, who has been in custody at the Vreed-en-Hoop Police Station...

Link Show 28 continues on March 3

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Link Show 28 continues on March 3

Guyana’s number one annual satirical production, The Link Show, produced by The Theatre Company and GEMS Theatre Productions, has once again earned its place as an institution in our...

Health Ministry still struggling to reach 100 per cent voluntary blood donation

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Health Ministry still struggling to reach 100 per cent voluntary blood donation

It has been several years now that the Ministry of Health has been advocating and putting measures in place to bolster voluntary blood donations rather than family replacement donations at the...

Stanford scholar hosts research and publication seminar

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Stanford scholar hosts research and publication seminar

Stanford University Professor and former University of Guyana staff- member, Professor John R. Rickford recently hosted a seminar on Research and Publications at the University of Guyana’s...

Students’ role to help realize improvement at CSEC being amplified

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Students’ role to help realize improvement at CSEC being amplified

– As Ministry analyses Mock CSEC Exam results Within a matter of months the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate Examination (CSEC) is scheduled to be undertaken and drastic...

Shot woman devastated over loss of baby

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Shot woman devastated over loss of baby

Less than 24 hours after being shot, pregnant teacher Anisah Woolford, lost her baby and is presently receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) Her...

Africanised bees death at Cane Grove…Community still at risk from killer swarm

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Africanised bees death at Cane Grove…Community still at risk from killer swarm

Relatives of Moonia Sanicharra are still waiting for experts from the Ministry of Agriculture to exterminate the Africanised bees that stung the 57-year-old woman to death last Thursday. Kaieteur...

New twist to ‘gas stove explosion’ case…Burnt man dies, family claims woman set him alight

Feb 25, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on New twist to ‘gas stove explosion’ case…Burnt man dies, family claims woman set him alight

Anand Persaud, who was badly burned at his Bella Dam, West Bank Demerara home last Sunday, has succumbed to his injuries, and close relatives are now claiming that he was the victim of...

Jagdeo’s latest secret deal…Land three times the size of Barbados committed to ANSA McAL

Feb 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Jagdeo’s latest secret deal…Land three times the size of Barbados committed to ANSA McAL

In an agreement reminiscent of the secret US$138M airport deal with a Chinese company in Jamaica, the former administration under President Bharrat Jagdeo, in September, signed yet another...

Beer giants, Digicel rule the road

Feb 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Beer giants, Digicel rule the road

– float parade returns to Berbice after two decades It took three giants –two into brewing and the other into mobile communications – to infuse much-needed energy to transform the...

Mahaica woman stung to death by African killer bees

Feb 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Mahaica woman stung to death by African killer bees

While thousands took to the streets yesterday to celebrate Mashramani, the family of 57-year-old Moonia Sanicharra is left to mourn after Africanized Killer Bees attacked and...

Pregnant woman among two shot

Feb 24, 2012 KNews News Comments Off on Pregnant woman among two shot

– bandit captured in canefield… Violence erupted in Vryheid’s Lust and Plaisance, East Coast Demerara yesterday after a cornered bandit opened fire wounding two persons, including a...

The German Example

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Editorial Comments Off on The German Example

In the midst of four years of economic turmoil in the developed world, Germany has been the one country to buck the tide of deterioration and decline. And this has been true even in the...

They will call another election; they will get another defeat

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon Comments Off on They will call another election; they will get another defeat

Any learned person will tell you that you can repair a defective biology but a damaged psychology is not easy to fix. In cultural studies worldwide, the debate rages on as to whether colonial...

TIME FOR A RETHINK OF MASH DAY

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Features / Columnists, Peeping Tom Comments Off on TIME FOR A RETHINK OF MASH DAY

Over the past fifteen years, Mash Day celebrations have grown larger and larger. More money than ever before is now placed into the event. The number of revelers is growing each year....

Dem boys seh…Is pimping and thiefing all de time

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Dem Boys Seh, Features / Columnists, News Comments Off on Dem boys seh…Is pimping and thiefing all de time

People like fuh claim family especially when dem want do wrong things. De Rat guh to India fuh look fuh family because he believe that once he find family in India de people in...

Mr. Ramotar owes Region 10 an apology

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Mr. Ramotar owes Region 10 an apology

DEAR EDITOR, It is with much regret that I respond to the remarks made by His Excellency, Donald Ramotar, in the February 12 edition of the Sunday Chronicle. It is not that I cannot appreciate...

This matter should be taken more seriously

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on This matter should be taken more seriously

DEAR EDITOR, I read your report on the following subject “Former headmaster crushed to death by cop’s car” in Kaieteur News Online. Here is a link to the article I read. Former...

I will continue to speak out

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on I will continue to speak out

DEAR EDITOR, I can almost hear your agony in your editorial in Wednesday’s (Feb. 22) issue. I agree with you fully on the negative influences of Dancehall and Chutney music. Our...

Is this how you would run the government?

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Is this how you would run the government?

DEAR EDITOR, There are some who, in defence of the government of their liking, whether the PNC of 28 years or the PPP of 20 years, have made some truly bizarre pronouncements. The latest...

Restoration of the dignity of the Guyanese people

Feb 24, 2012 KNews Letters Comments Off on Restoration of the dignity of the Guyanese people

DEAR EDITOR, Agriculture is the backbone of our economy. This has been so since the colonial days and is likely to remain so for quite some time despite the fact that a fair measure of...

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GFF U17 Youth Ensemble Programme gets underway this weekend

Sep 11, 2026

– Elite U17 competition to run simultaneously as new feature (Kaieteur News) – The Guyana Football Federation (GFF) Under-17 Youth Ensemble Programme will kick off nationally this weekend,...

(Kaieteur News) – This time, I went to Guru, I asked him what I thought was the most important question of all. “Guru,” I said, “what is happiness?” He smiled. “You have come a long way to ask a very difficult question.” “Isn’t happiness simply being happy?” “No,” he...

The World Has Broken the 1.5°C Promise. Small States Should Not Have...

Sep 06, 2026

By Sir Ronald Sanders (Kaieteur News) – The world has broken the 1.5°C promise it made to its most vulnerable countries. The breach has not yet been recorded on a sustained basis, but the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says it is widely assessed as unavoidable and likely within the...

Amerindian Heritage Month – the best celebration

Sep 11, 2026

(Kaieteur News) – The best manner in which Guyana’s indigenous can be honored in this their Heritage Month is through a credible Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the MV Barima catastrophe. An avoidable tragedy now written in blood on the books of Guyana. The callous, reckless, and...

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